CHARLES Loic wrote:  
"Actually, it was Quesnay not Turgot who was nicknamed the "European   
Confucius" (not the "French Confucius") by his own disciples the   
physiocrats."  
  
  
My source is Jupp's Introduction to *Turgot, Anne-Robert, The Formation and  
Distribution of Wealth*.  Jupp, Kenneth, transl and ed., 1999.  London:  
Othila Press, p. xiii.  
  
D'accord about the "European Confucius" part, and thank you for the  
emendation; but he does say Turgot. Of course, he might have erred, as might  
we all, and I would welcome learning of other authorities.  
  
Mason Gaffney